Hopefully a simple questions for the SC Gurus out there   We have SC and the SC Vsphere plugin (both v4.4) and plan to start backing up MS SQL dBs on the Vm guests using SC. normally when we do this for physical SQL servers the agents on the SQL server need to be able to communicate direct to the relevant Storage SVM to orchestrate the snapshots/snapmirrors etc.   As I understand it when the Server is a VM the snapshot is orchestrated via the Vsphere plug-in host and not the SC agent on the host so is the comms path from the Agent to the SVM hosting the VMDK files/VMFS volumes still required?   I assume the storage discovery is undertaken via the Vssphere plug-in and not direct from the Agents on the hosts?   Any confirmation or pointers to documentation that explains the steps SC uses for VM guest backup would be good and save a lot of trial and error/additional work    thank you ... View more

Is it possible to use SnapDiff with SnapLock Enterprise? Under the hood, both are FlexVol based, but there is no documentation that links both features. The customer uses Commvault as backup solution. ... View more

Hello,   We're backing up a MySQL database on iscsi storage (on Ontap 9.7) via SnapCenter 4.4 using the Custom Plugin for MySQL 2.0. This seems to work great, but when we try to clone via SnapCenter we get stuck on: "Mount Filesystem"=>"Building clone for data file systems and associated entities" and following log entry: Internal error: Attribute (uuid) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for 'Str' with value undef at accessor SCU::Model::Device::uuid (defined at /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/spl/lib/../plugins/scu/scucore/bin/../modules/SCU/Model/Device.pm line 26) line 4 SCU::Model::Device::uuid('SCU::Model::Device=HASH(0x3ce8730)', undef) called at /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/spl/lib/../plugins/scu/scucore/bin/../modules/SCU/Metadata/FSMetadataBuilder.pm line 105 If you look on the host right before it fails you can see that the LUNS are visible via sanlun lun show. If we take a look at the BuildHostStackCloneInput json file, fsMetadataInfo=>"path"=>deviceInfo=>uuid = null. Wich explains why the error happens. If we, for testing purposes, edit the FSMetadataBuilder.pm file to use "" instead of null the clone works, but we don't want to edit those files ofcourse.   We have no idea why that value is null to begin with, we've tried on both SLES and Oracle Linux, same result. Does anybody have any ideas? ... View more

Are there powershell command that i can run on a host to    1. establish an iSCSI session 2. connect the lun   In snapdrive i can run the sdcli command. But i can find the same commands in snapcenter https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMLP2874310   ... View more

We have 2 separate vSphere systems connecting to one  AFF-A300 Netapp storage. Both vSphere Vcenter Appliances have an individual Netapp VSC Appliance, and both are creating backups on a scheduled basis.   However, One of the vSphere Snapcenter Plugins is giving the error "No backups available at this time." and will not display the backups to restore from!   I have tried the following, and re registered  the SCV plugin. But still get the same error https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Protection_and_Security/SnapCenter/After_upgrade_of_SCV_no_backups_are_available_to_restore ... View more